Associate Faculty


International trade regulation, advanced international trade regulation, Islamic law, TPP, Indian trade law and policy, China-US trade war

Political and ecological dynamics of development in Latin American, especially the Brazilian Amazon; some experience in Mongolia on environmental issues related to mining, grazing, and urban life in Ulaanbaatar

Well hydraulics, direct-push methods for hydrostratigraphic characterization, ground-water flow and transport in heterogeneous formations, stream-aquifer interactions, phreatophytes. Experience in China, Korea, and Japan

Cultural impacts on healthcare design, Chinese hospital design, Evidence-based Design

Econometrics, financial econometrics, quantitative finance and statistics, Asian economies

Gender and domesticity in art and craft Korean food as a cultural diplomacy in contemporary public art.

Buddhist ethics, Classic Confucian ethical and political philosophy, Cross-cultural psychological study of moral character

Processes and Consequences of Territorialization & Place Attachment; Geopolitics & Border Studies; Migration & Diaspora Studies; Geographies of Nationalism & Transnationalism; Justice, Ethics, & Geographies of Citizenship; Urban Landscape Change. Mongolia & Northeast Asia, Islamic & Russian Borderlands, Central Eurasia/Greater Middle East

Language processing, neurolinguistics, language acquisition; languages of research include the East Asian languages Japanese and Chinese

Second language acquisition including acquisition of Japanese, Chinese and English in adult learners

Comparative & Cross-Cultural Management, International Management, International Business, Business Practices in China, Managing Internationally, International Business Strategy

Geotechnical engineering; geosynthetics; earth-retaining structures, ground improvement, pile foundations, and pavement design. Experience in China.

Furniture-based sculpture; Asian materials

Racial legacies of the Korean War, knowledge production and North Korea, Asian American and Latinx Studies

Social cognition and social perception, influences of social contexts on judgments and decisions, cross-cultural comparisons

Building thermal and material scienes laboratory, sustainable building laboratory, energy efficient buildings, China.

The social, cultural and psychological aspects of architecture, urbanism, & heritage conservation in China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tectonic development of the Himalayas and Tibet, active faults and earthquake geology

Russian journalism, emerging market-based media in Russia, the U.S. military on military-media issues